bilby
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Sure. But that's not the form of argument people here are using against the immigration alarmists, so any analogy between them is going to be stretched way beyond the bounds of usefulness.Would you agree that with global warming this
1.) "It's not happening"
2.) "It doesn't matter anyway" (or "why do you even care?!?") once it is shown that it is probably going to happen.
(Note, other things like CO2 and warm weather making plants grow faster (a lie) are used as distraction for the same reasons)
Is used for argumentation by often cynical skeptics and paid shills?
That's certainly one of the major differences. It's far from the only one.The thing is that carbon dioxide in the environment does not "deconvert" and say "I am carbon dioxide, but I will stop absorbing infrared radiation because I have learned it is wrong" in the way the people can with Islam or Christianity.
Yup. Which is why I am baffled that people seem to imagine that a simplistic idea like 'let's not let in the (Muslims/Mexicans/immigrants/refugees)*' is somehow likely to have beneficial consequences.Human society modeling is way more complex.
People like to imagine that they share a common culture and perspective with others in their country, religion, or 'race'; but not with those from other countries, religions or 'races'. But that's simplistic nonsense. People barely share a common culture and perspective with their extended families - the stereotype of the heated disagreements that erupt if religion or politics are so much as mentioned at the Thanksgiving dinner is well founded - so all we have in common with other people is that we are frequently in violent disagreement with them. They need not be 'foreign' for us to find points of contention. And no matter how foreign they are, the really fundamental things - the things you agree with even your crazy uncle/nephew about - are not only common to your family, but common to the entire population of the planet.
Dividing people between 'us' and 'them' on racial, religious or nationalistic grounds is fundamentally stupid, pointless and wrong. Our differences are much closer to home than that, and our similarities are much more widely dispersed than that.
The difference between 'us' and 'them' is circumstantial. In their place, you would do what they do. In our place, they would act as we do. The ways in which 'they' are unlike 'us' are no greater than the ways in which the rest of 'us' are unlike 'me'. Fear of people who are different is the path to universal paranoia; and history has repeatedly demonstrated that such paranoia is far more harmful than the 'problem' it was supposed to alert us to.
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